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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 31, 2018 15:12:13 GMT -5
Been playing too much Wipeout XL & Wipeout Fusion, feel like an absolute speed junkie
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 15, 2018 11:24:35 GMT -5
I finally bit the bullet a while back and bought the stealth weapon pack on Warframe, and two skins for $25. So I got the Glaive, a bow, and dual handed throwing knives. The skins make my Glaive and frame look just like Dark Sector. So the gaming nerd in me has been appeased.
I've also done well in gathering up three more weapons (that are being made in the foundry that take real time to build) and two frames that I need to find items for. I have one other sniper to get one more item for before I can make it.
I also have two sidearms I've accumulate as well. So I feel like I've finally accumulated a nice variety of weapons that help give the game some well variety since there's lots of farming to be done. But the nice thing is bosses can be played over or farmed since that make random but rare drops.
There's also one sidearm that looks like a futuristic but still old school six shooter that when I get enough in game credits I want to buy the blueprint and start hunting down the items to make that. That might work well with my Glaive. If you only use one sidearm (there is dual wielding for any sidearm) you'll go in sidearm in left hand, Glaive in right and can used simultaneously.
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Post by Warmonger on May 5, 2018 20:55:02 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on May 11, 2018 14:01:59 GMT -5
Gave into nostalgia and bought the Jazz Jackrabbit 1 collection on Good Old Games, even went so far as to write a fairly substantial review for it
A true "tour de' hare" by gabebrad89
Jazz Jackrabbit was one of the earliest games that I can recall playing, aside from the then standard early 90's titles by ID Software (Doom), Apogee (Duke Nukem II, Wacky Wheels), and Epic (Epic Pinball) and countless other companies that have unfortunately been forgotten; their titles lost to time except for those that remember them. I grew up with a PC and didn't get a console until my fifth birthday, so my Dad's PC back then was more or less treated like a 3DO or one of the other competing CD based consoles until the PS1 came along. And games like Jazz Jackrabbit helped with that, by adding a furiously fast home console experience on the PC. While Jazz seems to be, on the surface at least, of the "mascot platformer generation", he's a cut above. Being more akin to Battletoads or Earthworm Jim. I can best describe it as "a run n' gun game with sporadic platforming elements" that makes something like Sonic seem incredibly dated by comparison. With Sonic there's raw speed and meandering platforming that you have to do to get back to the "speedy bits". While I've heard and often agreed with the whole "donkey/carrot" analogy, there's still something about Sonic that's always felt off to me that I've never quite been able to put my finger on when compared to say Mario.
And with Jazz being kind of a more "lovingly made" copy/paste of Sonic, he also kind of inherits some of the problems that come with "blazing fast speed"; colliding head on with your enemies and taking damage. With It's sequel, Epic improved the game somewhat by moving the camera back a little so you were able to see more of what's going on in the world. While it can be a deal breaker for some, I feel that Jazz has so much audio/visual charm going for him, that these problems are very easy to ignore
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Post by Batflunkie on May 11, 2018 14:51:15 GMT -5
And because "why not?", here's one I did for Wipeout XL a couple of months ago. Did kind of write it under the euphoria of a serious caffeine high, but I personally think that it's pretty drokkin' good
Welcome to your new obsession by riot_shark
How can I possibly describe Wipeout XL; this furious, frantic, adrenaline rush of a love child between Mario Kart and F-Zero? It's a mid-90's rave party in you living room, a total sensory overload, with everything coming at you at teeth-gnashingly impossible speeds. It's a beautiful high that'll keep you coming back for more just like a lover with Stockholm syndrome
But enough wordy, overly descriptive prose; this game doesn't like you and it will do everything in it's power to make you tap out. The only way to win is to know the layout of a dozen or so tracks like the back of your hand, the turns, the weapon and booster pads, everything. Oh, and when you've done that, prepare for a boss rush of all of them in rapid succession with three lives that you'll helplessly cling to for dear life. Because it's all just one big uphill battle that I've wanted to win so badly that I could almost taste it. And I did it, it took me forever and a day, but I did it. But it's not cake walk after that. No such things as spoilers in a game with vague hints of a story, but what's next I'll just leave to your imagination
Buy it, beat it, love it, Drink Red Bull™
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Post by Batflunkie on May 25, 2018 0:55:29 GMT -5
Recently bought Midway Arcade Treasures & Atari Anthology for my PS2 fat. So good to finally play these after wanting them for so long, really kind of an old-school arcade junkie at heart. Remember playing a lot of half-baked shareware conversions of arcade games growing up, particularly of the very high quality CHAMP variety. Really loved the simple "pick up and play/easy to learn/hard to master" design philosophy of a lot of them. Kind of almost like a game of chess
Main reason for getting the Atari Anthology was all the vector graphic games, Crystal Castles and tons of 2600 games also sweetened the deal. Love Tempest, love Battlezone. Major Havoc, Black Widow, Red Baron were nice surprises. Midway Arcade Treasures is kind of a mixed bag, almost like it's sequel verbatim. One thing that I never liked in all my hours of playing Arcade Treasures 2 was how infinite lives was unlocked from the start. That almost instantly sucks all of the appeal out of it for me, because it misses the point of Arcade games and their subsequent home ports entirely; die set amount of times, get sent back to the start
Blaster was by far the most interesting game on Arcade Treasures 1, mostly because of how much it reminds me of the first virtual reality game from the Lawnmower Man movie
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Jun 13, 2018 8:32:13 GMT -5
Maybe we're all too old, but E3 just happened. There was a ton of exciting new games (which I probably will never get to play due to life's obligations). I'm a Sony man, and have been since the original Playstation. I really liked what was shown. I'm excited for Kingdom Hearts 3 (finally a release date), Spider Man, and Ghost of Tsushima. There was a new trailer for The Last of Us 2 and Resident Evil 2, but sadly I never got into those franchises.
Here were some of the trailers. Looks great.
Kingdom Heaerts 3 with Pirates of the Caribbean level reveal. Starting to see why the game kept getting delayed for years.
Spider Man showcase trailer.
More Spider Man gameplay footage. This is in the city. I thought this was more exciting.
Ghost of Tsushima gameplay trailer. This looks so awesome.
Also, I'm not really a Nintendo guy anymore, but the new Smash Bros. game looks good.
Last thing is the new game Death Stranding from Hideo Kojima set to come out soon. Even with extended footage, I still have no idea what this is supposed to be about. It all seems like an incoherent dream. Like I heard somewhere else, I also think this game will either be revolutionary or a big flop.
There was a Square Enix event at E3, but it was a big letdown. People were hoping to see something from the new Avengers game that was supposed to be in the works. Nothing though. Also nothing on Final Fantasy 7 remake either. But like with Kingdom Hearts, they're a slow company.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 14, 2018 8:18:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I like Sony a lot. My first 32 Bit console was the PS1 and I was incredibly jealous of my cousin when he eventually bought himself a PS2, having been stuck with a Gamecube on my 16th birthday just as the Wii was about to launch; frugality is a harsh mistress
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Jun 14, 2018 9:46:56 GMT -5
Big news for me out of E3 was Smash. I got into gaming solely because of Melee, so the series is a must for me. I'm worried that it won't have a proper single player mode like Smash Wii U didn't have one. That mode really ties the game together.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 14, 2018 11:04:29 GMT -5
The Bethesda and Nintendo showcases were the only ones worth a crap at E3. Well, and the trailer for Cyberpunk 2077.
I could care less about an online Fallout but at least Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI were officially announced. After Red Dead Redemption 2 this fall, those are easily my most anticipated games (along with Cyberpunk) over the next 2-3 years.
Sony and Microsoft showed basically nothing that interests me.
I thought that the Switch would end up being the final nail that sent Nintendo down the 3rd party developer route ala Sega...but they’ve been knocking it out of the park ever since it launched. Can’t wait for Octopath Traveler next month. Awesome looking JRPG with classic turn based combat, 16-bit sprites and a great 2D/3D aesthetic.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 14, 2018 11:10:55 GMT -5
Forgot about Ghosts of Tsushima until I saw PapaShogun’s post.
The swordplay looked awesome.
If this turns out to be some kind of open world Samurai game with RPG elements, I’ll be all over it.
Spider-Man I’m completely split on. I love the way it looks swinging around NYC, but when they showed some combat at last years E3, it looked like it was chock full of a bunch of lame ass quick time events. I hate that crap. It’s why I don’t understand why the Uncharted games or the modern Tomb Raider games are so highly regarded. I want to play a game, not some interactive movie. Give me total control of my character.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 22, 2018 15:17:38 GMT -5
If you like old school, turn-based JRPG’s, then you should love this.
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Jul 6, 2018 3:12:28 GMT -5
Just beat Okami for the first time. Played the Wii version with the motion controls, which mostly worked but had occasional issues. Drawing with the pointer was pretty intuitive and fun, but there were specific points where it refused to register. Looking at some online playthroughs it seems that this isn't limited to motion-controlled versions. It's overall a great game, and even in SD it's still beautiful to look at on the Wii. It's too long, fighting Orochi 3 times is too much, and some of the minigames that are required to advance, like the digging game, are really bad. Also not a big fan of the combat, but the exploration and puzzles are good. I wouldn't say it's better than Zelda Twilight Princess, which came out the same year as the PS2 version, but it's good for what it is. I may pick up the Switch version eventually depending on how the controls review, but only after a price drop. I had the Wii version for a long time before the Switch version was announced, but if I had known a Switch version was coming also with motion controls I probably would have waited.
Also, I didn;t know that they took out the end credits and epilogue from the Wii version. That was disappointing.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 6, 2018 9:58:36 GMT -5
Been playing a ton of GTA Vice City, Duke Nukem Time To Kill, and Descent on my PS2 Fat. My mom's reaction to finding out that the same people who made Lemmings made GTA was drokkin' priceless
And it could be just my love for action movie machesmo, but I'll take Duke Nukem over Laura any day. Not that I think she's a unique character, if not slightly oversexed looking in the PS1 era games
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 6, 2018 11:05:26 GMT -5
For anyone, like me, playing Warframe, tomorrow if you watch the TennoLive stream for 30 minutes you'll get a free Ash Prime. You just have to like a Twitch account to your Warframe account and it's all yours. I don't even know what Twitch is but it was easy to start an account. Then go to your Warframe account and link the two together. Then watch the stream. Free frame. forums.warframe.com/topic/978047-tennolive-2018-ash-prime-twitch-drop/ |
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